{"id":3569,"date":"2013-02-22T00:17:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T05:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2013-02-22T00:17:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T05:17:43","slug":"the-american-teacher-finding-reliable-reviews-and-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2013\/02\/the-american-teacher-finding-reliable-reviews-and-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Teacher: Finding Reliable Reviews and Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question<\/strong>:\u00a0How do you find reviews and essays about video documentaries?\u00a0Describe your search strategy and cite the 5 most thoughtful reviews or background essays on a designated video documentary. Your search results may include scholarly and\/or popular press, but\u00a0do your best not to include those featured\u00a0on the film\u2019s companion site. (Hint: the goal of this question is to help your classmates identify thoughtful sources that do not necessarily agree with the policy stance taken by the film.)\u00a0Add\u00a0a brief explanation\u00a0for why you recommended each of the five sources you selected.<\/em><\/p>\n

When looking for reliable material, everyone’s initial response to figure out something they don’t know is to Google the material. So, that’s what I did. Using\u00a0Google Scholar<\/a>, I entered all the information needed to link The American Teacher <\/em>and any reviews that would need to go with it.<\/p>\n

When visiting the first visiting the website, it appears as if you’re googling a normally on the primary website. Click on the small arrow next to the search button, and an advanced option to search articles appears.<\/p>\n

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Originally, it took me a while to find many reviews pertaining specifically to the actual documentary because just typing in “American Teacher” into the search bar brings up any article using both words. Specific words like American Teacher, documentary, 2011, reviews, education, and the teacher salary project narrows down the search to find articles more specific to the movie. Being as specific as possible with the search is crucial to finding a specific review for the American Teacher<\/em> documentary.<\/p>\n

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Many of the articles will vary from the topics they talk about; therefore, skim each preview of the article you wish before actually including the article because although the search made the scope a lot smaller, many of the results may very well still be talking about a different topic than reviewing the film.<\/p>\n

When I read the previews, I would make sure that the title of the movie was somewhere present along with an overview of the film to make sure the film was being reviewed.<\/p>\n

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Citations:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Yamada, Teri. “RESTRUCTURING Public Hi Ed.”\u00a0RESTRUCTURING Public Hi Ed<\/em>. www.wordpress.com, 2 Oct. 2011. Web. 21 Feb. 2013.<http:\/\/teriyamada.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/02\/blood-money-pearsons-profit\/><\/p>\n

In this blog post, Yamada takes an overview of American Teacher, and uses it as a positive aspect to support his claim over the growing amount of public relations campaigning.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Harris, K. “Amazon Official Comment.”\u00a0Amazon.com: K. Harris “Film Aficionado”‘s Review of American Teacher<\/em>. Amazon, 9 Feb. 2012. Web. 21 Feb. 2013. <http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R3RD0JMER4ASQG\/ref=cm_aya_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B006><\/p>\n

The reviewer goes in depth and analyzes both the pitfalls and successes of the film and bases his review on both perspectives. Moreover, the reviewer goes in depth about what improvements can be made to the documentary.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Willmore, Alison. “American Teacher.”\u00a0AV Club Live<\/em>. The Onion, 9 Sept. 2011. Web. 21 Feb. 2013. <http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/american-teacher,62512\/>.<\/p>\n

In this review, the author refers back to key scenes in the movie and describes in depth how American teacher is a positive impact and acknowledges the counter arguements within the film and also about the film.<\/p>\n

4.Campbell, Christopher.\u00a0“American Teacher”<\/em>\u00a0DISQUS, 14 Feb. 2012. Web. 21 Feb. 2013. <http:\/\/blog.documentarychannel.com\/post\/17628218422\/docsondvd021412>.<\/p>\n

The review is very down to earth and makes the reader associate better with the reviewer and how his review may be misconstrued. Also, the review provides some outside knowledge and takes a definite position on the problem proposed by the documentary.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Walker-Bickett, Jeri. “JeriWB: What Do I Know?”\u00a0JeriWB What Do I Know<\/em>. WordPress, 16 May 2012. Web. 21 Feb. 2013. <http:\/\/jeriwb.com\/education-criticism-reacting-to-american-teacher-2234\/>.<\/p>\n

The review really puts into perspective all of the statistics presented by the movie and gives a great overall view of the movie as well as present the hopefulness of creating change for teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question:\u00a0How do you find reviews and essays about video documentaries?\u00a0Describe your search strategy and cite the 5 most thoughtful reviews or background essays on a designated video documentary. Your search results may include scholarly and\/or popular press, but\u00a0do your best not to include those featured\u00a0on the film\u2019s companion site. (Hint: the goal of this question … Continue reading The American Teacher: Finding Reliable Reviews and Essays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":508,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}